The Bizmark Tribune (Forum News Service): The North Dakota Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed a district judge’s ruling that had blocked a 2011 state law limiting drug-induced abortions from taking effect, saying there wasn’t a sufficient majority of justices in agreement to declare the law unconstitutional.

Life News: Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Legal Counsel Matt Bowmantold LifeNews: “Faith-based educational institutions should be free to live and operate according to the faith they teach and espouse. The court was right to uphold the religious freedom of institutions that value the sanctity of life. If the government can force Ave Maria School of Law to violate its faith in order to exist, then the government can do the same or worse to others.”

Life News: Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Steven H. Aden is involved in the case. “Pro-life laws provide women with crucial information that they wouldn’t otherwise get from abortionists,” said Aden. “The court was wrong to view these reasonable disclosures of fact as merely ideological. This law simply provides women the adequate time and information they need to make such an important decision.”

Townhall: Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Legal Counsel Matt Bowman told LifeNews: “Faith-based educational institutions should be free to live and operate according to the faith they teach and espouse. The court was right to uphold the religious freedom of institutions that value the sanctity of life. If the government can force Ave Maria School of Law to violate its faith in order to exist, then the government can do the same or worse to others.”

The New York Times: The video was designed by abortion opponents here who believe that Tennessee has for too long been a Bible Belt outlier due to a State Supreme Court decision in 2000 that ruled that the state’s constitutional guarantee of a right to privacy includes the right to an abortion. Over the years, the ruling has served as a partial bulwark against the wave of abortion restrictions that have swept other conservatives states.

ADF Senior Legal Counsel Matt Bowman: “Faith-based educational institutions should be free to live and operate according to the faith they teach and espouse. The court was right to uphold the religious freedom of institutions that value the sanctity of life. If the government can force Ave Maria School of Law to violate its faith in order to exist, then the government can do the same or worse to others. ”

ADF Media: Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Steven H. Aden will be available for media interviews Wednesday immediately following oral arguments at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit regarding a North Carolina law requiring a 24-hour waiting period and informed consent of a woman before an abortion is performed. In January 2013, a district court imposed a temporary injunction on the law, claiming that its mandated disclosures about abortion are an unconstitutional imposition of “the state’s philosophic and social position discouraging abortion,” rather than being factually based.

WND: “California is flagrantly violating the federal law that protects employers from being forced into having abortion in their health insurance plans,” ADF Senior Counsel Casey Mattox said. “No state can blatantly ignore federal law and think that it should continue to receive taxpayer money.”

The Patriot Post: One of FRC’s Watchmen on the Wall pastors, Jack Hibbs, Senior Pastor of Cavalry Chapel Chino Hills, along with pastors from six other churches are now working with Alliance Defending Freedom and Life Legal Defense Foundation and have filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Townhall: Thanks to a newly enforced regulation in California, abortion is now a “basic health care service” in the state. The Federalist’s Casey Mattox reported the unfortunate news: “California’s Department of Managed Health Care has ordered all insurance plans in the state to immediately begin covering elective abortion. Not Plan B. Not contraceptives. Elective surgical dismemberment abortion.”

Catholic Education Daily: Today a coalition including The Cardinal Newman Society, leaders of Catholic schools and colleges, and the expert attorneys of the Alliance Defending Freedom told the Obama administration that its latest rule mandating insurance coverage for sterilization and contraception, including abortion-causing drugs, still “directly violates the religious liberty of organizations and individuals.”

Life News: Additionally, the Alliance Defending Freedom has reported that publically available federal and individual state audits of Planned Parenthood Affiliates has uncovered Planned Parenthood affiliates with at least $12.5 million in waste, abuse, and “fraudulent overbilling” of taxpayers.

ADF Senior Counsel Gregory S. Baylor: “The government should not force organizations to violate their religious convictions by providing abortion pills to their employees or students. The administration has once again failed to extend its existing religious exemption to all organizations with sincere religious objections to the mandate. That would have been the best way of respecting freedom for everyone.”

Nathan Cherry: Did you know that you only believe those things because you are a simplistic minion incapable of intelligent, independent thought that has been brainwashed by “evil pro-lifers”? That is the conclusion of a new book proudly advocating abortion on demand and the book review given by a staunch abortion supporter.

The Washington Post: The pro-life Susan B. Anthony List is targeting a very different kind of voter this cycle: For the first time, the lobby and advocacy group is pitching women in Democratic households.

Religion News Service: Seven churches in California received notifications from their insurers that elective surgical abortion coverage would be required as part of their employee health plans, according to Casey Mattox, an attorney with the Arizona-based Alliance Defending Freedom.

BizPac Review: “California is flagrantly violating the federal law that protects employers from being forced into having abortion in their health insurance plans,” said Alliance Defending Freedom senior counsel Casey Mattox, according to World Magazine.

World Magazine (requires subscription): The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and Life Legal Defense Foundation (LLDF) have filed a complaint with the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on behalf of seven churches compelled to provide insurance coverage for elective abortions.

Soulation: I’ve become friends with this columnist over in Chicago. There’s a lot that separates us. Emily Heist Moss is liberal, shows up religiously for Pride Parades, and if she got pregnant right now, Emily believes she would probably have an abortion. But, there’s also a lot that unites us, we are both vocal feminists, writers, we both care about humanizing the debate across the aisle, and let’s not forget our penchant for handicrafts (cross-stitch for Emily, knitting for me).

The Federalist: The image of childbirth perpetuated in American pop culture is one of panic and emergency. A woman, screaming in pain, is saved from the pain or danger by, more often than not, a male doctor. My birth, attended by a midwife in a hospital, was calm and at the end stage, while I was pushing, I will even dare to say it was fun.

National Review: Thanks to women like Kristan Hawkins of Students for Life, who will be honored this evening at our annual Great Defender of Life Dinner, and Lila Rose of Live Action, young women have role models who aren’t afraid to speak out for those who have no voice. These women exude intelligence, class, and positive energy.

Life News: Alabama Women’s Center for Reproductive Alternatives (AWCRA) reopened their doors last week after closing down due to Alabama’s Women’s Health and Safety Act. The Act required abortion facilities to meet the same building standards as Ambulatory Surgical Centers.

National Review: But Obamacare forbids states from discriminating against policies that don’t provide abortion coverage. True. Alliance Defending Freedom and Life Legal Defense Foundation are on the case.

Live Action News: As was mentioned in Lauren Enriquez’s piece for Live Action News, Casey Mattox, of Alliance Defending Freedom, says that they “remain confident that the entirety of Texas’s law will ultimately be upheld.”

National Right to Life: According to a report in Bloomberg Businessweek, Cai Fang, vice director of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, has stated: “We will fully relax the policy” in two years, allowing all couples to have a second child. The reason: China’s shrinking labor pool will cause the potential growth rate to fall an average of 6.2 percent annually from 2016 to 2020.

Public Discourse: China’s One-Child policy, announced in 1979, is state-sponsored violence against women and children. The Nuremberg Nazi war crimes tribunal properly construed forced abortion as a crime against humanity. Nothing in human history compares to the magnitude of China’s thirty-five-year assault on women and children.

Aleteia: Over the past week multiple media outlets have covered the recently published book by Katha Pollitt, “Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights.” An October 16th excerpt, penned by Ms. Pollitt in the Huffington Post, is entitled “The Abortion Conversation We Need to Have.”

Aleteia: First, fewer than one-third of the women who were asked to participate agreed to do so. This is unacceptably low because those consenting may have differed systematically from those who declined. Consent to participate rates should be at least 70% for a study to be considered valid.

Life News: The Washington Post reports something I’ve noticed in my dialogues with pro-choice people: “Forcing eye contact when trying to change someone’s mind may actually cause listeners to become more stubborn, a new study shows.”

Life News: Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis’ online campaign store is selling baby onesies for a $20 contribution. The messages on the clothing read, “Wendy Davis for Texas” and “Generation Wendy.” (Ironic for a candidate the media showcased as an abortion heroine.)

ADF Media: Alliance Defending Freedom is offering free legal assistance to public school students who participate in the Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity if their First Amendment freedoms aren’t respected. The annual event, occurring this year on Tuesday at schools across the nation, offers pro-life students an opportunity to express their views on abortion.

Life News: Steinauer, as the course instructor, will focus on global abortion access, abortion as a shared-experience to embrace, re-contextualizing abortion as a public health service, and demonizing abortion restrictions.

The Washington Times: It is for these serious reasons that we are currently engaged in litigation, and Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys, on our behalf, have now filed the final papers in our lawsuit, March for Life v. Burwell.

The New American: Casey Mattox, senior counsel for the conservative legal advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom, noted in a statement that the fight to protect women and pre-born babies from the predatory abortion industry is far from over. “Texans have the freedom to prioritize women’s health and safety over the bottom line of abortionists, and this good law affirms that,” he said after the ruling. “The Supreme Court’s decision only temporarily and partially prevents the Texas law from going into effect while the 5th Circuit finishes hearing the case.”

Townhall: I know this from personal experience as U.S. District Court Judge Raymond Jackson has decided the facts don’t matter and the First Amendment is unworthy of consideration in The Radiance Foundation v. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People The NAACP is abusing trademark law to censor me while Alliance Defending Freedom is fighting for my civil rights. Judges gone wild don’t care about the truth. They care about their worldview. Impartiality be damned.

Live Action News: “Texans have the freedom to prioritize women’s health and safety over the bottom line of abortionists, and this good law affirms that,”said Casey Mattox of Alliance Defending Freedom.

The Los Angeles Loyolan: This formal complaint follows a letter of objection submitted to the DHHS by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a religious liberty advocacy group, and the Life Legal Defense Foundation. Similar to the CCC complaint, the letter argues that the action is a “clear violation” of the federal Weldon Amendment.

Huffington Post (AP): The leader of Rhode Island’s Catholics is suggesting that voters could write in Mother Teresa’s name or sit out the Nov. 4 election because the candidates aren’t “terribly promising” on the abortion issue.

National Right to Life: National Right to Life News Todayhas closely followed the legal and administrative proceedings brought against Michigan abortionist Robert Alexander going back to January 2013. But his trail of incompetence and dangerous practices reaches back many years before that.

The Blaze: I tried my best over the past week to figure out a way to contact you personally. I guess that was a futile effort to begin with. You didn’t post your name or contact information, which makes sense. The good folks at Reddit are apparently deleting any responses on your thread that don’t consist entirely of “congrats” and “atta girl,” so I couldn’t reach out to you that way, either. I’m left with this as my only option.

The Christian Institute: A woman in Northern Ireland who carried on with her pregnancy despite her baby having a fatal foetal abnormality has told the BBC’s Stephen Nolan show that she is against a weaker abortion law in the Province.

SCOTUS Blog: Over the dissents of three Justices, the Supreme Court on Tuesday evening barred Texas from enforcing two parts of its new abortion-restriction law — one part as it applied throughout the state, the other as it applied to two clinics in the southwest part of the state.

Life News: “The Supreme Court’s decision only temporarily and partially prevents the Texas law from going into effect while the 5th Circuit finishes hearing the case. While that is disappointing, it should cause no great alarm. The state’s requirement against cut-and-run abortionists remains in effect for all but two abortion facilities. The restriction on abortions after 20 weeks on unborn children who can feel pain was never challenged and remains in effect today. Likewise, the limitations on chemical abortions up to seven weeks gestation and prohibiting abortionists from sending women home alone to abort have been upheld and remain in effect. We remain confident that the entirety of Texas’s law will ultimately be upheld.” -Casey Mattox

ADF Media: “Texans have the freedom to prioritize women’s health and safety over the bottom line of abortionists, and this good law affirms that. The Supreme Court’s decision only temporarily and partially prevents the Texas law from going into effect while the 5th Circuit finishes hearing the case. While that is disappointing, it should cause no great alarm. The state’s requirement against cut-and-run abortionists remains in effect for all but two abortion facilities. The restriction on abortions after 20 weeks on unborn children who can feel pain was never challenged and remains in effect today. Likewise, the limitations on chemical abortions up to seven weeks gestation and prohibiting abortionists from sending women home alone to abort have been upheld and remain in effect. We remain confident that the entirety of Texas’s law will ultimately be upheld.” -Casey Mattox

Life News: Why can’t the movie “Obvious Child” make a joke out of the lead character obliterating her unborn child? “We shouldn’t need a book explaining why abortion rights are important,” Rosin writes. “We should be over that by now.”

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